Success has ruin'd many a man.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

Laws without morals are in vain.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.